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The second amendment would have been nice in days like these. The looters are animals that only respect force...like nearly all humans under their skins. What good is a community organiser leading the looters when we need a fighter that is not corrupt...like a Sarah Palin type. I am talking about the Democrat Congress, of course.

Chile has strict gun control laws. Gun owners must register their guns for the place (home or business) where they will be used for protection. They cannot be carried outside the home unless you are a licensed hunter or competitive shooter.

You can end up spending between two months and five years in jail even for buying ammunition, unless it fits your registered gun.

Indeed.Only as something looters mentally think to themselves as they pass by houses and stores guarded by armed people for easier pickings.

"Violence is something we do not seek as we look for loot to snatch."

The problem with societies that go easy on looters from racial sensitivities or whatever - is that it ends up killing innocent people. Many people would evacuate if they knew authorities would force all to and go medieval on any looters spotted in a disaster aftermath - shooting them on sight.

But without those conditions, you have a good number of people that KNOW "insurance doesn't cover" all looting losses. And if they evacuate, authorities will then bar them from returning for days or weeks "until it is perfectly safe" - as they watch news crews allowed in filming packs of looters who stayed looting away for days..

So the average person has to make a calculation, if looters are free of being shot or arrested....The stupid government Maxim "Just leave, nothing is worth your life" doesn't fly if you calculate that you have X risk of dying, but a far larger Y risk of losing a substantial part everything you own built up over your life - that insurers and Gov't will not compensate for.

I'm currently reading "How to survive the coming economic collapse" by a writer who lived through the meltdown in Argentina in 2000 when money lost all value.

Mostly about surviving urban lawlessness by someone who did. Entirely different decision flow chart with little room for courtesy or other niceties of civilization. His experience tells that the only realistic survival strategy for a family that stays, is to form a group of like minded families in a relatively safe neighborhood. Lone survival is unlikely, and running to the hills just means nobody comes when you scream.

"a nuke destroys our entire electronics systems and that transports America civilization back to the 1800's."

A lot of men often fantasize about such a scenario. I do. Something about a brand new level playing field, with all the techno garbage removed is very alluring to many. Of course as I get older and less able I may not find it so attractive.

Jeff Cooper had it right, "Put a firearm in the hands of someone who knows how to use it and they cease to be a subject and start to be a citizen".

Like the rest of Latin America, Chile labors under the legacy of the partido culture where only the privileged were able to defend themselves. Thankfully, we never had that here. Which is another reason why the Lefties hate this country.

It may be considered a trite and hackneyed phrase by now by some, but the phrase/truism "when seconds count the police are only minutes away" continues to be proven to ring true day after day after day by glaring examples all over this world.